Sap-spout



(ModeL) G. J. RECORD.

Sap Spout. I No. 242,981. Patented June 14,1881.

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GEORGE J. RECORD, OF OONNEAUT, OHIO.

SAP- SPO UT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,981, dated June 14, 1881. Application filed March 30, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. RECORD, of Oonneaut, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sap-spouts, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a sectional side elevation of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same, taken through the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to strengthen sap-spouts against injury when inserting them in a tree and 1 removing them therefrom, also to promote security in suspending the sappails.

The body A of the spout is made of tin or other suitable. sheet metal, bentinto the form of a tapering tube and having its overlapped edges soldered or otherwise secured to each other.

Upon the middle part of the tapered tube A is formed, or upon it is driven, a ring-flange, B, which flange, when a separate piece, is sol dered orotherwise seouredin place.

The spout A is made with a second or auxiliary tapered tube, G, placed upon or within it, as shown in the drawings. The edges of the tubes A 0, instead of being overlapped, abut against each other, the joints of the two tubes A 0 being placed upon difierent sides of the spout. The edges of each spout are fastened together and the two spouts connected and held in place by solder or other suitable means. WVith this construction the ring-flange B strengthens the spout, and also serves as aguard to keep the suspended sappail in place, the flat surface of the flange B against which the pail or bucket rests preventing the said pail froin being swung about by the wind.

In the construction shown in the drawings the second tube, 0, strengthens the spout against being injured in driving it into the tree and from being bent or indented in re niovingit from the tree. This construction also produces a smooth outer surface, so that it will not require to be driven so far into the tree to make it water-tight.

Haviugthus fully described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A sap-spout consisting of two tape-red tubes, one within the other, abutting upon their edges, and with joints on different sides of the spout, as shown and described.

GEO. J. RECORD.

Witnesses L. E. MORGAN, O. ADRIT. 

